West Series: Lakers- 1, Spurs - 0

I bet the Spurs didn't sleep very soundly last night. Ouch! A 20 points lead lost in the second half! What a game. I was able to catch the last 10 minutes which is typically the best part of a Basketball game, haha. So much fun. If you're a Spur, you're stressing for the rest of the series, even with a 20 point lead, you could lose it. I wish the L.A. teams weren't so dramatic. Exciting but very hard to watch.

Gesture Fun

I thought I'd have some fun and try drawing the model with a different body type.

Who does this remind you of???

Haha, here's an episode of Flap Jack, a new Cartoon Network show premiering soon that was created by Thurop Van Ormen, an old classmate of mine. Check it out!



Apparently, the resemblance is coincidental (if you don't know what I'm referring to, don't worry about it), but I heard they recognizing the similarity and had a good laugh. Can't wait for the toys to come out!

Iron Giant Boards

Check out these amazing story boards from Iron Giant! What a gold mine. I love how simple the drawings are and yet the space is so clearly defined. Beautiful work.

Enough is Enough

So I have my Google Reader with my updates of various blogs. Today I finally read this one and decided I'm done with Cartoon Brew. I'll be honest, 1 out of every 40 posts is interesting to me. Otherwise it's a total waste of my time and attention. Besides, they don't need me as a reader with all of the hits they get, haha. I wish we had Seward Street back to give us the meat and potatoes of quality character animation news. The stuff that gets you excited about this living art form. Cartoon brew does not excite me about animation at all. We need another forum for animation news and discussion to be honest. Cartoon brew should be an animation history site. Until then, Jim has this amazing story blog to read and catch up on for those who haven't seen it (I didn't realize how long he's had it!).

And about the article, you have to admit that Dreamworks brings an edge to this industry that makes it healthy for everyone. You can have a beef with the management, but as Steve Pilcher once said at a lecture, if you tore away the executives from every studio they are all pretty much the same, full of nice, talented artists who all want to make a good movie.

An Old Warehouse

Ian in HB

My family and I had a nice little weekend at the beach two weekends ago. This is my brother, Ian, posing for me.

Haha, Conan-

Saw it...

No spoilers I promise. I even turned off the comments section.

Into A Fox Hole: Part Four

So finally I really felt the pressure of time, and decided to keep it simple. I drew every page the size of a postage stamp, using a micron pen. Of course the quality suffered, but I feel like I got the story told which makes it easier to sleep at night. And yes, this one was a CalArts film i never got to make. I threw around a few Baseball stories in my head, but this one came the closest to being animated.

Anyways, I printed a copy of the book through Lulu.com. I wasn't too happy about the limited options they offer (I didn't care much for the Super Duper Glossy Cover I got), but at least it was a simple process and relatively cheap (Pocket B&W, Perfect Bound, 4.25" x 6.875").

Done. Now on to the next!

Into A Fox Hole: Part Three

And here we have yet another pass, another exploration of the "look" of the book. I'm sorry to say, this isn't the one I went with in the end. I liked it, but it was too time consuming as well. I did 10 pages, then started over. What makes for more of a heart breaker is I lost all 10 of the originals on the Metrolink (don't lose anything on the train, you won't get it back). Luckily, very luckily, I had scanned these already.

Into A Fox Hole: Part Two

So, I hastily started coloring things, then stopped after five or so and decided it was too much work to do to still make the deadline I had given myself (May 1st, or in other words, close to the Open Show deadline for calArts films). I want to try and do a book every year and finish it around that time.



So anyways, I roughed out the whole book (image on left), and then it took a while to find the right balance between the "look" and the amount of time I could finish it in. The book ended around 35 pages.

Into A Fox Hole: Part One

So I did a little book for fun. Here's a little of how it came to be. Some of these drawings you might have seen before. Many doodles of foxes playing baseball.

March Outdoors

You never what'll come out.

Chap

Sterling

I've been writing, outlining, thumbnailing, designing, doing rough pages, scrapping them, and trying to figure out Bo and Sterling. It's been fun. Here were some experiments. These are a couple of random pages I chose to try to ink and color. They don't make too much sense out of context, but oh well. Great learning experience.

"Good morning, Batman."

I always have these Sharpie doodles from the train. They look too boring to post in black and white, so I do some sloppy, crappy colors on them. This one looks fairly decent if you look at it as a thumbnail from standing on the other side of the room.

Batman on Fire!

Haha, so...dumb.

Uni-Mog

No Name Post

Alfa Romeo BAT 9

So my LEGO blog gets more hits now than this one, haha. Oh well. I don't mind the privacy. Here's another favorite car of mine.

Post With No Name

DAF Kalmar Tjorven

Loved this little car when I came across it. You'll have to Google it for more images, but it's a pretty silly car. Hopefully more cars on the way.

CHADES: Sweaty Biker

This is so dumb. I gave it a shot. I don't know. Random.

Renault Clio Sport

I didn't post this one before because I didn't feel it turned out as good as the others I did back then. Here it is ANYWAYS! Gotta keep those cars coming.

Brrrp-

Risk It!

I love this show. So fun. i love seeing people come out of a cab with cash in their hands. Something addicting about that. I'll be honest though, I don't think I'd do very well on the show.



I'm always fascinated when you have a car with only one person, but he/she is really smart. What's great is that one person doesn't have to split the winnings. Then you see a huge group, 4-5 people get in, and it ends up that only one of them knows anything anyways! PLUS, they have to split the cash!

Fun show.

Man, We Suck!

Well, I was hoping the Giants would stay dead last the whole season, but...alas, the Dodgers are now in last place.

Below: "Lectures on Hitting"

Still Only Doodles

Looks Like Ironman

I like those Ironman posters. Pretty cool looking. Hope it's as good as its trailer.

Go-Man

Done

Sorry...had to get that out of my system.

Cog

Beep

Default

Sorry, Austin. No CHADES today, got a big pitch this afternoon, so...maybe next week.

Carpet Cleaner

No Name